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Java for Authors
Prerequisite: None

Week 1
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Chapter 1 - The Mental Landscape

• The Fetch and Execute Cycle: Machine Language
• Asynchronous Events: Polling Loops and Interrupts
• The Java Virtual Machine
• Fundamental Building Blocks of Programs
• Objects and Object-oriented Programming
• The Modern User Interface
• The Internet and the World-Wide Web

Chapter 2 - Names and Things

• The Basic Java Application
• Variables and the Primitive Types
• Strings, Objects, Enums, and Subroutines
• Text Input and Output
• Details of Expressions
• Programming Environments

Week 2
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Chapter 3 - Control

• Blocks, Loops, and Branches
• Algorithm Development
• The while and do..while Statements
• The for Statement
• The if Statement
• The switch Statement
• Introduction to Exceptions and try..catch
• Introduction to GUI Programming

Chapter 4 - Subroutines

• Black Boxes
• Static Subroutines and Static Variables
• Parameters
• Return Values
• APIs, Packages, and Javadoc
• More on Program Design
• The Truth about Declarations

Week 3
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Chapter 5 - Objects and Classes

• Objects, Instance Methods, and Instance Variables
• Constructors and Object Initialization
• Programming with Objects
• Programming Example: Card, Hand, Deck
• Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Abstract Classes
• this and super
• Interfaces, Nested Classes, and Other Details

Week 4
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Chapter 7 - Arrays

• Creating and Using Arrays
• Programming With Arrays
• Dynamic Arrays and ArrayLists
• Searching and Sorting
• Multi-dimensional Arrays

Week 5
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Chapter 8 - Correctness & Robustness

• Introduction to Correctness and Robustness
• Writing Correct Programs
• Exceptions and try..catch
• Assertions
• Introduction to Threads
• Analysis of Algorithms

Week 6
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Chapter 12 - Advanced GUI Programming

• Images and Resources
• Fancier Graphics
• Actions and Buttons
• Complex Components and MVC
• Finishing Touches

Beginning BD-Java Programming
Prerequisite: None (Basic Java programming experience is recommended)

Day 1
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BD-J System Model

• Relationship between BD-J & HDMV
• Player Profiles (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0)
• Pixel Buffer Model
• Local Storage
  • Application Data Area (ADA)
  • Binding Unit Data Area (BUDA)

What is an Xlet?

• Overview
• Standard xlet structure
• Requirements when creating xlets
• Starting and stopping an xlet
• Printing trace log messages
• Your first BD-J application

BD-J Object (BDJO) Files

• Overview
• How to create a simple BDJO File

Testing

• How to play your Xlet
• How to get to the trace log
• Helpful debugging techniques

Day 2
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Making Useful Xlets

• How to draw to the screen
  • Java AWT
  • HAVi UI
• How to get user Input
• How to play video

Application Security

• How to sign JAR files
• Permission request files

BDJO Files Revisited (Advanced Topics)

• Starting/Stopping Applications
• Localized applications
• Using Xlet Parameters
• Signed vs. Unsigned Applications
• Title/Disc-Unbound Applications

Advanced BD-Java Programming
Prerequisite: Beginning BD-Java Programming

Day 1
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Using Fonts in BD-J

• Overview
• Font file restrictions
• How to create a BD-J Font
• All the ways to get to a font
• The ways that actually work
• Understanding Font Metrics

Persistent Storage

• Overview
• How to access the ADA
• Reading/writing to the ADA
• Setting file priorities & expiration
• What happens when it fills up?

Day 2
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Application Listing & Launching

• Overview
• The Application Database
• Monitoring the Database
• Launching an application
• Monitoring an application's state
• Terminating an application

Inter-xlet Communication (IXC)

• Overview
• Registering an object for sharing
• Reading the registry
• Acquiring a shared object
• Remote method calls
• Error handling over IXC

Networking BD-J
Prerequisite: Beginning BD-Java Programming

BD-J Networking Overview
HTTP/HTTPS connections

• Sending data to a server
  • GET messages
  • POST messages
• Reading the response

Introduction to network sockets

• TCP sockets
• UDP sockets

How to create a simple TCP socket server
Creating a TCP socket in a BD-J xlet
Creating a UDP socket in a BD-J xlet Application architectures for networking

• Client architecture
• Server architecture

Realizing what you haven't thought of...

VFS Updating with BD-J
Prerequisite: Beginning BD-Java Programming and Networking BD-Java

VFS Update Overview
How do VFS updates work?
The manifest file

• Overview
• How to create a manifest file

The signature file

• Overview
• How to generate the signatures

Performing an update - the basics

• Checking local storage availability
• Determining the destination directory
• Copying files to the update directory
• Triggering the update
• Handling errors

Disc-based updates
Network-based updates
Security issues when updating
Managing updates

• Avoiding update conflicts
• Checking update validity
• Removing an update

Secondary Audio & Video with Blu-ray
Prerequisite: Beginning BD-Java Programming and VFS Updating with BD-Java Overview

• Secondary Audio
• Synchronous PIP Video
• Asynchronous PIP Video

Using Secondary Audio

• Encoding for Secondary Audio
• Mixing metadata
• BD-J Metadata API
• Adding interactive audio

Using Synchronous PIP

• Preparing video for PIP
  • Color space settings
  • Luma key settings
• Encoding video for PIP
• PIP metadata
  • Size & position
  • Luma key limits
• Programming Synchronous PIP
  • Turning PIP on/off
  • Setting PIP to full screen

Using Asynchronous PIP

• Transferring PIP to local storage
• Performing VFS update
• Programming Asynchronous PIP
  • Starting/stopping PIP playback
  • Turning PIP on/off
  • Setting PIP to full screen

Using secondary audio & video in multi-angle